Context

The dataset contains data of documented COVID-19 cases, partially complemented by additional Web data. The date are originally pulished at https://tinyurl.com/s6gsq5y and are updated regularly. This dataset is a snapshot downloaded on March 3, 2020.

Content

Xu et al. (2020) have built a centralised repository of individual-level information on patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 (in China, confirmed by detection of virus nucleic acid at the City and Provincial Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), including their travel history, location (highest resolution available and corresponding latitude and longitude), symptoms, and reported onset dates, as well as confirmation dates and basic demographics. Information is collated from a variety of sources, including official reports from WHO, Ministries of Health, and Chinese local, provincial, and national health authorities. If additional data are available from reliable online reports, they are included.

Acknowledgements

The authors decidedly declare no competing interests. Their work was funded by the Oxford Martin School.

Reference

Xu, Bo; Kraemer, Moritz U. G.; Gutierrez, Bernardo; Mekaru, Sumiko; Sewalk, Kara; Loskill, Alyssa et al. (2020): Open access epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak. In: The Lancet Infectious Diseases. DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30119-5.